Players criticized Commandos: Origins for taking liberties with the history of the Second World War

The developers of the video game Commandos: Origins from Darmstadt have been criticized by users. The players were unhappy with the distortion of historical facts in the plot dedicated to the Second World War.

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By genre, Commandos are real—time tactics. The series has been released since 1998 and includes five games in the main line, two remasters and a large-scale addition Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty. All the games in the series are dedicated to various episodes of the Second World War, among them there are such as Operation Barbarossa (Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines) and the Battle for Stalingrad (Commandos 3: Destination Berlin).

In the new part, subtitled "Origins," the developers moved away from the concept of realism and complete historical authenticity, instead they began to create fictional episodes of World War II in locations close to historical ones. The Commando: Origins storyline campaign is dedicated to the fight against the secret organization of the Third Reich Speerspitze, which translates as "spearhead". It is headed by fictional Nazis: officers Keicher, Nehring, Garven, as well as the head of the organization, Broch, and his right-hand man named Felter.

Users on the forums were dissatisfied with the free handling of the story, in particular, one of the buyers of the game on the Steam forum stated that, among other problems, Commandos: Origins contains an inadequate representation of historical facts and somewhat strange cinematic clips styled like a documentary chronicle.

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Bunker, but not that one: in the game Commandos: Origins, the history of the Second World War was distorted